Hey guys, I'm using the

drawBehind

modifier, which doesn't provide a Composable scope. However I need a composable scope in order to use

rememberTextMeasurer

in

drawText

. How can I do that?

remember

it in a composable, then use it in

drawBehind

. If you don't have one, wrap it with

Modifier.composed

.

@Loney Chou Ah, I see thank you. It's annoying to have to pass text measurer instance into all my drawing functions, though 😕

That is what

Modifier.composed

is for

or use

drawWithCache

@Halil Ozercan Maybe we need a sibling to

rememberTextMeasurer

that can be used from

Modifier.Node

?

This was discussed the first time around we were designing the TextMeasurer. The best approach is to be able to instantiate a TextMeasurer solely from drawWithCache scope. Now that we have the ability to read locals (LocalFontFamilyResolver) in Modifier.Node, there should be nothing stopping us from doing that.

What if it’s also needed from a layout modifier, like for the BTF2 use case?

@Halil Ozercan reading Locals from node is not implemented in any released version right? Is there an open PR or something I can look at to see more details

@efemoney https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/support/+/2318839

Amazing! Is this making it into 1.4? (pls say :yes-black: 😅)

@Andrew Bailey This was merged right after API freeze was lifted so I'm gonna assume it's part of 1.5 track?

Yes. It's going in as part of 1.5